Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Brian Nelson wrote: > > > Why not just download the kernel-source package? Similar to the > > vanilla ones, but usually with a few patches applied. > > That's exactly why not. I'd rather have a vanilla Linus kernel source > tree to which I can apply patches without worrying about whether they'll > conflict with whatever patches the Debian maintainers decided to apply.
Yeah, those mysterious Debian developers do strange things to the source. Whatever could it be? $ zless /usr/share/doc/kernel-source-2.4.9/changelog.Debian.gz kernel-source-2.4.9 (2.4.9-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream release (closes: #63393). * Fixed highmem CramFS bug (closes: #108893). * Added missing include in fs/ntfs/unistr.c. * Reverted startup==1 patch from drivers/net/tulip/21142.c. * Fixed obsolete use of min: drivers/net/rrunner.c. * Exported snprintf/vsnprintf (ac patches). -- Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sat, 18 Aug 2001 21:23:07 +1000 Hmm, seems to be just a couple fixes to me. I wouldn't complain... > > The package > > installs the bzip2'ed source in /usr/src. Just tar -jxf it, configure > > with 'make menuconfig' or whatever, and then build a custom > > kernel-image package with 'make-kpkg kernel_image'. > > I have not found any reason to prefer make-kpkg over "make bzImage" and > manually installing the kernel image. 1. You won't forget to run /sbin/lilo 2. No need to worry about changing /vmlinuz link 3. ... For a bunch more: zless /usr/share/doc/kernel-package/Rationale.gz -- Brian Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
